Quotes By Emmanuelle Beart

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.

I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

You may think of me as an object of desire and I'm going to tell you that I can be in front of you naked and not be erotic.

For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.

It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.

I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it.

If I have one thing perfect, it's my eyebrows. And my feet. I love my feet. They're like Japanese feet. The rest I would like to hide. Especially my freckles. I feel ridiculous.

There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.

I don't give a damn about Hollywood.

The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.

In Hollywood there's no real material. They would send me stuff, but I hadn't even seen the director. If I don't see the director's eyes, I'm not going. I'm not even going to pack my bags.

I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the least one can do.

When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful.

I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.

When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.

I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

I don't see my old films, but I think of the characters I played as friends, like the women I meet in my life who made strong impressions on me. I remember them and they are part of me.

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.

I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else.

If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body, it is no longer bearable. Either they get help and find the strength to fight or they proceed with the act.

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.

My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.

Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way around.

I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.

I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them.

Often, when you see yourself on the screen, you feel like a sweater that's been put through the washing machine. You have the impression of having done something full and luminous, and suddenly, when you see it on the screen, it's turned back into a tiny little thing.